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📜 Name: Elias Thornbridge
Title: The Orchard Steward of Bellewood

Story:
Elias Thornbridge is known across Bellewood as the quiet keeper of abundance. Born on the western edge of the village where the land bends toward the riverbanks, Elias inherited his family’s orchard—a patchwork of heirloom apple trees, brambleberries, and honey plums that bloom like clockwork every spring. But his true gift is not simply tending the fruit. Elias is a listener.

Villagers often find their way to his orchard fence with more than baskets in hand. They bring questions, secrets, or the kind of heartache that needs green space and stillness to ease. Elias listens as he prunes and grafts, rarely offering answers but always leaving people lighter than they arrived.

Though he speaks little in town meetings, Bellewood respects him deeply. He’s often called to plant ceremonial trees, oversee the herbal guild’s composting beds, or guide young apprentices in the rhythms of nature. Elias keeps detailed journals of weather, bloom cycles, and bird migrations—entries so precise the calendar sometimes waits for his say.

His favorite corner of the orchard is under the Juneberry tree planted by his mother, where he once buried a box of letters from a woman who never stayed but always wrote. Elias never married, but he carries a kind of love that spills out anyway—into the soil, into the sweetness of fruit, into Bellewood itself.